Hi,

I'm updating my package forgejo-cli, which newly added rust-serde-saphyr
(NEW) which in turn needs rust-saphyr (NEW) which FTBFS with
rust-smallvec 1.x, it needs >= 2.0.0~alpha12.

Can you please update rust-smallvec so I can upload the rest to get
forgejo-cli.

Regards,
Daniel

Hi!

in general we do not package alpha/prerelease versions. From a cursory
glance at upstream issues/PRs/discussions, it also doesn't seem like
this is a "almost done" RC-like alpha version, but there are still quite
a few blockers for the real 2.0 to be cut..

it seems like it's actually serde-saphyr which is pulling in smallvec,
and it started out using the alpha versions from the get go, so
downgrading it to 1.x probably requires some work..

Fabian

Hi Fabian,

right, that's what tried to write in the bug report.

I don't think that makes sense to invest time going backwards - how
about uploading smallvec 2.x to experimental?

Regards,
Daniel

that can be done, but it doesn't look likely to me that it will be ready
for unstable in the near future.

Fabian

sure, but can we get it in experimental? anything I can help with?

Regards,
Daniel

if you want to take a stab using the team workflow, you could update it.

1. run ./update.sh smallvec
2. rebase/update patches if needed
3. run `cd build; build.sh smallvec` and ensure it builds + passes autopkgtests

repeat 1-3 as needed

4. open MR with the required changes and indicate that it should be
uploaded to experimental